Blake Snell

Left-handed pitcher · LAD · 6 starts · 32 innings

Starting today
at Miami Marlins · 7:10 PM ET
3.27
SIERA
1.97
ERA
32.6 %
strikeout rate
10.6 %
walk rate
1.09
WHIP

His ERA and his SIERA disagree by 1.30. The ERA is the flattering one — what has happened behind him has been kinder than the way he is getting outs. SIERA is built from strikeouts, walks and contact, so it settles far faster than ERA does.

Against left-handed and right-handed batters

His two sides rest on 32 innings this season — too few to read as a trait. The numbers below are his; the conclusion is not.

xFIPK%BB%K-BB%HR/9
vs left-handed batters2.8334.1 %17.1 %17.1 %0.00
vs right-handed batters3.0631.9 %7.7 %24.2 %0.00

xFIP rather than SIERA by hand: FanGraphs does not publish SIERA in its splits. The two describe the same thing and correlate at about 0.95.

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